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CISPA: Lawmakers Plan to Reintroduce Anti-Privacy Bill

Many Republicans and Democrats are avowed enemies of the US Constitution, and of basic rights and liberties. From The Hill:

Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), the ranking member of the House
Intelligence Committee, said he plans to re-introduce the Cyber
Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) with Intelligence
Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) this year . . .

CISPA aimed to thwart cyberattacks by making it easier for private
companies to share information about cyberthreats and malicious source
code with the intelligence community and the Department of Homeland
Security. The bill enjoyed support from a broad swath of companies,
including Facebook and AT&T, because they said legal hurdles slowed
down information sharing about cyber threats between industry and
government.

Civil liberties groups and privacy advocates
launched online protests against the bill because they argued that it
lacked sufficient privacy protections and would increase the pool of
people's electronic communications flowing to the intelligence community
and the secretive National Security Agency (NSA).